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INDIAN MURDER MYSTERY.Drag River for Victim Probabaly Slam by Rejected Lover.Marshai'town. la.. March 22. — Believing that the grHinkiaughter of their chief has ln.'Cii murdered and her body thrown into the Iowa river, the Musquakie Indian* on ihc reservation at Tania, twenty miles co.-u of here, are holding a great council and have begun dragging the river.The missing Indian girl is Ma-Puck-('hee. aged 17. and she disappeared twenty days ago. At first it vsas supposed she had gone withe some trapping partie*. but wh»*n they returned without her. th»- whole tribe became excited. Fhief Push-Tun-yue B aiding in the searchThere have been sev* r.il mysterious murd'i s on the n*s« rv at!c:i in the p isty.ur or two, the last one being that of ayoung man who was seized n his rivalwhile holding u tryst with an Irdiunmai'icn The young bimk was s«alp*d and his body staked down in the shallow watt r of the* uv«.*r. on the banks of whi--h the girl and her luvor had met in the moonlight. The girl witness* d the murder but kept the awful ?lt;lt; ret for weeks. Finally the body was discovered, and the girl told her story.lt; n another occasion one of the women of the tribe was found murdered just outside the reservation. Her murderer was never discovered. It is believed the granddaughter of. the ohief. who is missing, was 1 i led by a rival for her affections, she h;vmg but recently been man led.
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Carroll Herald
Carroll, Iowa, US
Wed, Mar 29, 1905
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